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Representing syntax by means of properties: a formal framework for descriptive approaches

Journal of Language Modelling, 2016
Linguistic description and language modelling need to be formally sound and complete while still being supported by data. We present a linguistic framework that bridges such formal and descriptive requirements, based on the representation of  syntactic ...
Philippe Blache
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Mentalist vs Behaviorist : Chomsky`s Linguistic Theory [PDF]

Global Journal Al-Thaqafah, 2016
The research emphasizes on the relationship between linguistics and logic according modern views and approaches. However, linguistic argumentation is needed for analyzing a language system that uses the meaning of expressions in a sentence to ...
Solehah Yaacob
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Towards a unifying theory of linguistic meaning

Communicative & Integrative Biology, 2023
Fundamental tensions exist between formal-logical approaches and cognitive approaches to linguistic meaning. The divergence arises from the fundamental differences in nature and form between formal/mathematical structures of natural language meaning and ...
Prakash Mondal
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Metatheoretical Linguistics: A Philosopher’s Guide

Biolinguistics
In this article, we summarise and critically evaluate Ryan Nefdt’s The Philosophy of Theoretical Linguistics: A Contemporary Outlook (2024). In this book, Nefdt brings the tools of philosophy to bear on contemporary linguistics, targeting perennial ...
Konstantinos Voudouris, Niall Roe
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Non-Conditioned, Unconscious Intra-Individual Variation

Languages
Far from the uniformity of language and the ideal speaker, it is assumed that language varies even within the same speaker, and that such variation is intrinsic to this speaker.
Gotzon Aurrekoetxea
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L’argumentation au banc d’essai d’une théorie métalinguistique

Corela, 2016
These reflections about the epistemological and methodological framework of linguistic theories are working in the name of effectiveness of linguistic theorising, in order to evaluate them upon the argumentation. It is a very special case that linguistic
Zsuzsa Simonffy
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Archetypical Signs of the Kolomyika in the Ukrainian Music of the 21st Century

Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Musica
The article is devoted to studying the implementation/manifestation/reflection of archetypal features of kolomyika, as a traditional genre of Ukrainian folk art, in the music of Ukrainian composers.
Maryna VARAKUTA, Daryna KUPINA, Maryna VOTINTSEVA   +2 more
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Aspects of “Context” in the Modern Linguistic Studies [PDF]

دراسات في اللغة العربيّة وآدابها, 2014
The study of “context” has obtained a significant place in contemporary linguistic studies and many linguistic scholars, both in early and modern times, spent much effort on this domain until it became a fully-fledged theory by the English scholar ...
Mohammad Ismail-Bassal, Fatema Ballah
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Optimality Theory or Language in a Dodgeball Game

Rasprave Instituta za Hrvatski Jezik i Jezikoslovlje, 2014
The aim of this paper is to present Optimality theory (OT), one of the most prominent contemporary linguistic theories developed in the 1990s by two phonologists Alan Prince and Paul Smolensky (1991/1993, 2004).
Mia Batinić
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Textual meaning and its place in a theory of language

Topics in Linguistics, 2015
Following the development of a framework for critical stylistics (Jeffries 2010) and the explication of some of the theoretical assumptions behind this framework (Jeffries 2014a, 2014b, 2015a, 2015b), the present article attempts to put this framework ...
Jeffries Lesley
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